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“The best kind of walk, and this applies to the plains as well as to the hills, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.”
― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie

“I have never been a fast walker, or a conqueror of mountain peaks, but I can plod along for miles. And that's what I've been doing all my life—plodding along, singing my song, telling my tales in my own unhurried way. I have lived life at my own gentle pace, and if as a result I have failed to get to the top of the mountain (or of anything else), it doesn't matter, the long walk has brought its own sweet rewards; buttercups and butterflies along the way.   Ruskin Bond Landour, March 2005  ”
― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie

“Death moves about at random, without discriminating between the innocent and the evil, the poor and the rich. The only difference is that the poor usually handle it better.”
― Ruskin Bond, Landour Days: A Writer's Journal

“One sure way to lose the world and everything in it, is to try grasping it.”
― Ruskin Bond, A Book of Simple Living

“For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.”
― Ruskin Bond

“The other day a young Internet surfer asked me why I preferred using a pencil instead of a computer. The principal reason, I told him, was that I liked chewing on the end of my pencil. A nasty habit, but it helps me concentrate. And I find it extremely difficult to chew on a computer.”
― Ruskin Bond, Landour Days: A Writer's Journal

“You don’t have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room on the Roof

“if you have secrets, you must have a friend to share them with,”
― Ruskin Bond, The Angry River

“I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.”
― Ruskin Bond

“The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.”
― Ruskin Bond, Delhi Is Not Far

“What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?”
― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie

“On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers. The”
― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie

“The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying. Something”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

“I believe that mountains do affect one's personality, if one can remain among them long enough; and if Sunil had grown up in the hills instead of in a refugee township, I have no doubt he would have been a completely different person.”
― Ruskin Bond

“And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond

“Cold weather doesn’t care if your coat is old or new.”
― Ruskin Bond, A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

“Nothing is insignificant; nothing is without consequence in the intricate web of life.  ”
― Ruskin Bond, Funny Side Up

“Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Best of Ruskin Bond

“Until death comes, all is life.”
― Ruskin Bond, A Little Night Music

“It’s easy to rob a greedy man, because he deserves to be robbed; it’s easy to rob a rich man, because he can afford to be robbed; but it’s difficult to rob a poor man, even one who really doesn’t care if he’s robbed”
― Ruskin Bond, Best Of Ruskin Bond

“I never cease to wonder at the tenacity of water - its ability to make its way through various strata of rock,zigzagging,back-tracking, finding space, cunningly discovering faults and fissures in the mountain, and sometimes traveling underground for great distances before emerging into the open. Of course, there's no stopping water. For no matter how tiny that little tickle, it has to go somewhere.”
― Ruskin Bond

“Everyone says she’s mad.’
‘How do they know?’ I asked.
‘Because she’s different from other people, I suppose.’
‘Is that being mad?’
‘No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.”
― Ruskin Bond, Best Of Ruskin Bond

“When we are young, we can put up with a great deal of discomfort in order to follow a dream. If, after thirty-five years, I’m still doing my own thing, it’s because I haven’t forgotten the dream. Let no man take your dream away. It will sustain you to the end.”
― Ruskin Bond, Room On The Roof; Vagrants In The Valley

“I feel drawn to little temples on lonely hilltops. With the mist swirling round them, and the wind humming in the stunted pines, they absorb some of the magic and mystery of their surroundings and transmit it to the questing pilgrim.”
― Ruskin Bond, Landour Days: A Writer's Journal